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Danish artist Stine Bo uses pregnant Siri's stomach as a canvass as part of an photo exhibition, Aug. 12, 2011 in Round Tower of Copenhagen. Twenty artists use twenty pregnant womens' stomachs as canvases in the favour of the organization Maternity Worldwide. Art photographers Marie Wengler, Marte Holten and Karoline Tira Liberkind will later exhibit the pictures of the painted stomachs at Gallery Copenhagen Art. Revenues from sale of the photos will be donated to the organization Maternity Worldwide, whose purpose is to save women and childrens lives during pregnancy and childbirth in Ethiopia.

Pregnancy only lasts nine months so some moms wish to immortalize it by turning their bulging bellies into art.

Artist Brian Saaby uses pregnant Signe's stomach as a canvas as part of an photo exhibition Aug. 12, 2011 in Round Tower of Copenhagen.

Some women want a more permanent reminder of their pregnancy, like Atlanta mom Tisha DeShields who had a belly cast made of each of her four kids. Because she was married to former major league baseball player Delino DeShields, the first belly cast had a baseball slant. But ended up being prophetic as the kid was drafted into baseball when he was 17.

DeShields sells personal belly casting kits and gets some strange requests, such as the woman who thought her pregnant torso resembled a lion.

Houston-based body painter Vonetta Berry gets as much as $700 per belly painting and one of her favorites came from a woman who wanted a picture of what her child might look like trying to get out of the tummy.

Berry says that one client loved roses so much she decided to turn herself into one.

Vancouver-based body painter Allyson Grant says that painting a pregnant belly is an intimate experience for both the mother and the artist. Her first belly painting was on a woman about 7.5 months pregnant and during the 2 hours she worked on it, the shape was slowly shifting.

Natumi Hayashi‘s blog featured all kinds of normal photos of herself, her pet cat, friends and Tokyo sights, but on September 16, 2010 she posted a photo entitled “Today’s Levitation”. The rest, as they say, is history…

Hayashi has become an Internet sensation after she began posting photos of herself levitating in all kinds of places around Tokyo. She told the Daily Mail it was an English idiom that inspired her to take the first photo of herself levitating - ‘to have one’s feet firmly planted on the ground’. Apparently they have the exact same phrase in Japan, but since she doesn’t consider herself a practical person she chose not to have her feet firmly on the ground in her self-portrait photos, to show how she really is. “In being free of gravity in the pictures, I am also not bound to societal conventions. I feel as though I am not tied to many things and able to be my true self.” the artist said in an interview. After taking her first levitation photo the frequency of “Today’s Levitation” gradually increased until she started posting a new photo every day.

What makes Natsumi’s photos so popular is her natural expression and pose which has you wondering if she’s actually floating. But the Japanese teen swears she’s no magician, so how does she do it? It’s actually very simple, and yet pretty complicated at the same time. As soon as she finds the perfect spot for her shot, Natsumi sets the self timer on her Canon EOS 5D Mark II, or asks a friend to press the shutter, and just starts jumping. Doesn’t sound very hard, but the young girl sometimes has to jump 300 times to get that one perfect levitation photo.

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